Patent for Adapter Enables Use of Open RAN Technologies on Legacy RAN Systems
ECE Associate Research Professor Salvatore D’Oro, Associate Research Scientist Leonardo Bonati, Assistant Research Professor Michele Polese, and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia were awarded a patent for “Open RAN adapter for use of open RAN technologies on legacy RAN systems.”
Abstract Source: USPTO
Provided herein are open radio access network (Open RAN) adapters for using non-open RAN nodes in a wireless network having Open RAN infrastructure, the Open RAN adapters including one or more control application programming interfaces (Control APIs) for controlling the non-open RAN nodes, one or more Data Capture APIs for capturing operational data from the non-open RAN nodes, one or more Open RAN interfaces for communication between the Open RAN adapter and the Open RAN infrastructure and one or more software modules each configured to translate data received via the Data Capture APIs to Open RAN compatible data for use by the Open RAN infrastructure and/or translate Open RAN commands received via the Open RAN interfaces to non-open RAN compatible commands for instantiation at one or more of the non-open RAN nodes via the Control APIs.
